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PHOTOS: Installation & Diversity Awards 2023
The CCCBA got together in person with a virtual option at Contra Costa Country Club in Pleasant Hill on Friday, January 27 to induct the new Board Officers, Directors and Section Leaders. The 2022 Diversity Awards were presented to a very deserving group of winners. David Erb, CCCBA President for 2023 gave a speech, and...
Read ArticleInside: We’ve Come So Far… Or Have We?
Generally speaking, the only thing that can derail my naturally optimistic outlook on life is uncertainty. Even bad news can beat the uncertainties of “what if?” “when?” and “how long?” While optimism is certainly a part of my DNA, it is also the by-product of starting my own law firm and managing it through a...
Read ArticleWelcome to the Bench Judge Beltramo, Judge Riebli and Commissioner Lifter
Frank Riebli, 51, of Contra Costa County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Governor Gavin Newsom on January 31. Riebli has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California since 2022. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney...
Read ArticleCCCBA Drives Effort to Exonerate the Port Chicago 50
The Contra Costa County Bar Association formed the Port Chicago Task Force after the CCCBA DEI Committee presented a November 2021 program about the Port Chicago Disaster that occurred near Concord in 1944 and the historical injustice of the mutiny trial. The CCCBA Port Chicago Taskforce is comprised of CCCBA member attorneys as well as...
Read ArticleThe Problem with Dobbs
Fundamental rights should be analyzed in the context of where the country stands at a particular point in time. When advances in medicine have made abortion far safer than carrying a pregnancy to term, contraceptive failure and human error result in unwanted pregnancies, and women and their families have made life decisions based on the ability to control if and when to have children, abortion should be preserved as a constitutional right.
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